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HB 2154 Virginia Workforce Council; powers and duties, change in membership.

Introduced by: Kathy J. Byron | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Virginia Workforce Council; composition; powers. Provides for the Virginia Workforce Council to review the state's annual plan for postsecondary vocational education activities authorized under the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act (20 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq.) to ensure that the plan is aligned with the state's plan for coordinating programs authorized under Title I of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. § 2801 et seq.) and the federal Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. § 49 et seq.).  The bill provides for the Governor to appoint to the Council a state director of career and technical education and two representatives who have been nominated by state labor federations in place of two positions currently filled by the President of the Virginia AFL-CIO and a representative of labor appointed by the Governor.  The bill also allows the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, and Health and Human Resources to appoint designees to serve in their stead on the Council.  The bill is identical to SB 1177.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Virginia Workforce Council; composition; powers. Directs the Virginia Workforce Council to provide recommendations for postsecondary vocational education activities authorized under the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act and on policies, plans, and procedures for other education and workforce development programs, to develop Workforce Investment Act incentive grant applications and approve criteria for such grants, to develop and approve criteria for the reallocation of unexpended funds from local workforce investment boards, and to review budgets by agencies conducting certain education and workforce development programs. The bill also (i) adds the State Director of Career and Technical Education to the Council, (ii) removes a representative of labor from the Council, (iii) provides for the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, and Health and Human Resources to appoint designees to serve on the Council, and (iv) provides that a local training provider certified by any workforce investment board has reciprocal certification for all workforce investment boards.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Workforce Council; composition; powers. Provides for the Virginia Workforce Council to review the state's annual plan for postsecondary vocational education activities authorized under the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act (20 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq.) to ensure that the plan is aligned with the state's plan for coordinating programs authorized under Title I of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 USC §2801 et seq.) and the federal Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. § 49 et seq.). The bill also (i) adds the chair of the board of directors of the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and a representative of kindergarten through grade 12 education providers to the Council, (ii) removes from the Council the position for a second representative of labor in addition to the president of the Virginia AFL-CIO, and (iii) provides for the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, and Health and Human Resources to appoint designees to serve on the Council.